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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What's the meaning of the Khrushchev corn emoji

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

In this context, it's a reference to a Dril tweet:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/corn-cobbed

As for Khrushchev, he had a huge agricultural campaign in the mid-50's and early 60's where he tried to popularize corn as a feed crop for livestock. In typical Khrushchev fashion, he fucked it up spectacularly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Someone is shriveling into a corncob aka being bombarded with negative attention and trying to minimize it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Corncob" is a shorthand for someone who's in obvious and comical denial about losing an argument, someone posted the dril tweet the term came from. In this case, the tweeter is circlejerking with supportive comments while banning everyone else from responding with the simple point that bridget is explicitly canonically trans

Khruschev isn't meaningful to my comment, he just happens to be on our corn-related emoji